The Stream

The Center for Marriage Policy

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner boasts that Barack Obama is willing to go off the
so-called fiscal cliff if Republicans don’t increase taxes on those who earn
more than $250,000. So, our fearless leader, Obama, a scholar in economics, a
mathematical whiz kid, is willing to damage our whole country if he doesn’t get
his way.

Hell hath no
fury like a metrosexual spurned. The shrew can’t be tamed. It’s his way or the highway. All or none, no matter how much it damages
America, his country, his target for spiteful arrows of outrageous decrease in
fortune. Hamlet was also adolescent.

Obama doesn’t
care if he punishes us with automatic spending cuts and tax rate
increases. If an agreement is not
reached by January 1st he will go over the cliff with us in his knapsack.

Geithner
defends Obama’s approach and pretends that he is protecting Medicare for the
future when he has done nothing to avoid its going bankrupt and has recommended
no substantial easing of entitlements. Geithner
claims he will be using taxpayers' resources wisely when he has in fact
stupidly marched us into a 16 trillion dollar debt. He defends Obama’s economic
failures and says that they are worth going over the economic cliff. The choice
to Geithner and Obama is not between going over the cliff and saving ourselves
but between getting their way or the highway.

While Obama
has offered no compromise the House Republican leaders presented a
counteroffer, including changes to Medicare and cuts to spending. Obama and
Geithner rejected the offer as a “wish list” but offered no compromise in its
place.

Obama doesn’t
care if going off the fiscal cliff will set the economy back into a
recession. He never had a father. I suppose he is guessing at what a father’s
authoritarian attitude should be and he is adopting it for himself. I’m
beginning to believe that there should be a law against damaged people becoming
President.

While America
waits for the fiscal cliff situation to be resolved, businesses are cutting
back. Orders of non-military goods have
gone down and consumers are spending less. Retail sales are declining.

Going over
the fiscal cliff would impact the private sector as well as the federal. The federal sector would cut 615,000 jobs; the
private sector would lose 1.5 million jobs. Obama wants to enable our economic
suicide just so he can get his juvenile way. Doesn’t he have any foresight to
determine the relative demerits of various proposals? Can’t he see that adding $5,700
more a year to a middle class individual’s taxes is negative?

Obama boasts
that he is the great friend of the middle class. He is leading them to their financial
demise. Riding a steed in his armor no
one can see his toothy military smile and his big ears that betray his hiding
in his helmet from reality, listening to his own echo like the ocean in a conch
shell.